Example sentences of "[v-ing] the time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For these considerable services he received nothing , his enemies using the time he was away to poison Francesco I Sforza against him , not least because they were jealous of the work on the chapel . |
| 2 | With the noise of the water splashing round her head and drumming into the bath , Melissa found herself reliving the time she had spent with Fernand in that dark , echoing cavern . |
| 3 | That is , that it is a considerable asset to have all the aspects of your novel reflecting the time you have chosen to set it in . |
| 4 | Gaily looked back over his shoulder at the rosy-bricked manor house , for he was too near to remembering the time he had wished his mother dead . |
| 5 | ‘ Sounds like the Cornishman coming , ’ he thought dreamily to himself , remembering the time he had watched the express thunder through Berkeley Road station . |
| 6 | Ease of access to the garden , especially if you grow your own herbs , vegetables and fruit , is also important , as is minimising the time you spend answering the front and back doors . |
| 7 | He has to keep these kids in the team because there 's nothing better to replace them — yet even five years ago Jamie Redknapp and Don Hutchison would have been back in the reserves , getting the time they need . |
| 8 | The court will look to its own law to determine whether there has been good service , sufficient in a common law system to found jurisdiction ; the same law will identify the steps required to set running the time which must elapse before a default judgment can be entered ; and the same law will , in some countries , apply to determine whether service was so defective that a default judgment must be set aside . |
| 9 | Unlike a Guardian predecessor , Cardus , he was not intensely musical , perhaps not finding the time he might have liked . |
| 10 | From them and from a local solicitor , Thomas Watson Brown , he learned much about trade union administration and the drafting of trade union rules ; they also , he claimed , fed his ambition to lead a national seamen 's union , initially at the cost of some domestic disharmony , his wife and his mother-in-law accusing him of neglecting his own restaurant business and resenting the time he spent with his own visitors , particularly " old long-faced Brown " the lawyer . |
| 11 | He had been asked to rewrite the words of The Rock , but he suggested to Ronald Duncan that he should do the job for him : " Watching the time he took to write even his signature , " Duncan noted , " it occurred to me that it must be a painful process for him to compose anything " . |